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Heal Your Life
Mondays 7.30pm - 8.45pm
From 15 April 2024
With Kadam John McBretney, Resident Teacher
At Heruka Kadampa Meditation Centre, Golders Green
Where does our unhappiness, our insecurities, our problems and challenges come from?
The world we live in is a reflection of our thoughts, making our minds capable of being our greatest ally or our worst adversary. Since happiness exists within our mind if we learn how to cultivate healthy states of mind we learn how to create happiness.
However we often find changing our mind to be very difficult. Our mind feels very stuck in its ways and so we keep thinking the same old thoughts in the same old way. We feel we can’t change and that therefore we can’t have the life that we want.
This course looks at how to cultivate positive and beneficial minds and how to transform our life through meditation practice. Come join us for one or all the sessions.
You will learn how to:
- Discover inner peace through meditation
- Let go of painful minds
- Break bad mental habits
The teacher, Kadam John McBretney, has more than 30 years of meditation experience. He will be teaching and guiding the meditations, and there will be time for Q&A. Why not give it a try? Bring a friend!
Everbody welcome!
meditateinlondon.org/mondays
Address:
Heruka KMC
11 Woodstock Road
Golders Green
London NW11 8ES
Mondays 7.30pm - 8.45pm
Dates:
15, 22, 29 Apr; 6, 13, 20 May 2024
Price:
£10 a class, £32 for four weeks, £42 for six weeks
NEW
Meditation & Breakfast Club
With Kadam Ai Peng McBretney
Tuesdays 7.30am - 8am
At Heruka Kadampa Meditation Centre, Golders Green
Join us for a short meditation to start the day, and a light breakfast afterwards.
Choose your drink or breakfast menu at the class.
4 minutes from the tube and bus station for a quick getaway afterwards - drop in on your way to work!
meditateinlondon.org/tuesdays
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Address:
Heruka KMC
11 Woodstock Road
Golders Green
London NW11 8ES
Tuesdays 7.30am - 8am
Dates:
16, 23, 30 Apr; 7, 14, 21 May
Prices:
£5 a class. £20 for five weeks
Breakfast menu and prices - see at the class.
Breakfast menu and prices - see at the class
NEW
Positive Thinking and Meditation
With Kadam Ai Peng McBretney
Wednesdays 12.30pm - 1.15pm
At Heruka Kadampa Meditation Centre, Golders Green
Is your glass half full or half empty? Whether we experience a happy, meaningful life full of exciting challenges and opportunities for growth, or a stressful, unhappy life full of difficulties and problems, all depends on our way of thinking! Happiness and suffering are states of mind; with meditation, we can train ourselves to think positively and to maintain an authentic experience of inner peace, even in difficult situations, and discover the potential for lasting happiness and joy within our own minds.
Learn how to be positive, stress-free and relaxed through meditation!
The classes are in-person and everybody is welcome.
meditateinlondon.org/wednesdays
Address:
Heruka KMC
11 Woodstock Road
Golders Green
London NW11 8ES
Wednesdays 12.30pm - 1.15pm
Dates:
27 Mar; 17, 24 Apr; 1, 8, 15, 22 May
Prices:
£6 a class, £25 for 5-week course (30% discount)
Inner Peace and Contentment Toolkit
With Sandrine Fanjek
Thursdays 12.30pm - 1.30pm
At Heruka Kadampa Meditation Centre, Golders Green
In this series of classes we will learn about how to train our mind - how to develop and eventually maintain a positive state of mind such as inner peace, contentment. We will learn a very helpful collection of techniques from Buddhist teachings and meditations.
Through this we will have an essential self-help tool kit to help us in every situation in our life .
Everybody welcome regardless of your background and beliefs.
Bring lunch to enjoy together at the end of the class. Drinks and refreshements provided.
meditateinlondon.org/thursdays
Address:
Heruka KMC
11 Woodstock Road
Golders Green
London NW11 8ES
Thursdays 12.30pm - 1.30pm
Dates:
28 Mar; 18, 25 Apr; 2, 9, 16, 23 May
Prices:
£6 a class, £25 for 5-week course (30% discount)
Meditation in Vietnamese
Với Ni Sư Kadampa, Kelsang Phachog
With Kadampa Buddhist Nun, Kelsang Phachog
Sundays 4 - 5pm
Not running at present - contact us for information
At Heruka Kadampa Meditation Centre
Khoá thiền nhằm giúp thiền sinh học cách để phát triển tâm bình an và hạnh phúc nhờ vào thiền định.
Khoá thiền giảng dạy về các giáo huấn và thiền định của Phật, và giảng giải làm cách nào áp dụng các giáo huấn của Phật vào giải quyết các vấn đề của cuộc sống hàng ngày của chúng ta.
Mọi người đều được chào đón!
Chiều Chủ Nhật hàng tuần 4-5 PM
Phí: 5£/buổi
Có thể đặt trước hoặc thanh toán khi đến
Google customer reviews
"Heruka Centre ticks all the boxes. Meditation, peaceful environment, lovely garden, warm kind people, great food and if you want more they do day courses and retreats. Highly recommend."
Andy Levy
"Practical meditation guidance in a peaceful space. Pretty garden, friendly faces and tasty food at the weekend courses!"
Emily Danby
"Heruka Centre is a very blessed and peaceful environment. Learn to meditate with authentic Wisdom teachings. Highly recommended. Try it, you'll like it!!"
Kelsang Dondrub
How does Kadampa meditation help?
Modern life is challenging and if we lack the inner resources to control our mind, we will inevitably find life stressful and difficult to manage, giving rise to feelings of anxiety, irritation and even loneliness and depression. This can make us feel unhappy and helpless, and it can also have an impact on our relationships as we become less able to cope constructively with disagreements and differences in our views and wishes.
Kadampa meditation gives us the solution. The meditations taught, and the teachings which help us to understand what to meditate on, give us techniques to understand where our unhappiness and problems are coming from and how to change them. Not only this, but over time, we will learn to transform difficult situations into opportunities for growth and development, so that instead of feeling powerless when faced with a difficult situation, we will come to welcome difficulties into our life as they provide the actual means with which to bring about positive change and spiritual development. In this way, peace and happiness will become our daily experience, and we will approach life with a new confidence and sense of purpose.
"If our mind is pure and peaceful we will be happy, regardless of our external circumstances, but if it is impure and unpeaceful we will never be happy, no matter how hard we try to change the external conditions."
How to Transform Your Life by Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso.
Everyone is welcome
"Happiness is a part of the mind that experiences inner peace, or peace of mind, so the real source of happiness must lie within the mind, not in external conditions."
Geshe Kelsang Gyatso